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Do you live in the Nicest Place in America? Celebrate the history-making women who have blazed the trail toward equality. Stele with a hymn to Amun. Though Elizabeth I gets all the acclaim, it was her half-sister Mary Tudor, the only adult child of King Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, who was crowned the first Queen of England in 1553. Born in Barcelona in 1594, Juliana Morell was so brilliant that by the age of four, her teachers informed her father they had nothing left to teach her.

Home-schooled after that, Juliana had written and defended theses on ethics and morality by the tender age of 12. In 1608, she became the first female ever to earn a university doctoral degree. Italian Francesca Caccini was 38 years old when La Liberazione di Ruggiero, the opera she composed, was performed for the first time in Florence. The year was 1625, and Caccini was not only an accomplished composer, but also a lute player, poet, and music teacher. She wrote or co-wrote 15 more opera works before her death in the 1640s. Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1702. In 1707, Queen Anne was crowned ruler of England.

That very same year, the kingdoms of England and Scotland merged to form Great Britain, making Anne the first ruler of Great Britain, period. Here’s why you should never call Queen Elizabeth II by her given name. Hand of a person casting a ballot at a polling station during voting. In 1756, a century before woman’s suffrage became a movement, Lydia Chapin Taft became the first female to vote in America. Lydia was the widow of an influential landowner in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, whose recent death was thwarting the town’s plan to help finance the ongoing French and Indian war. In 1805, Sacagawea, a member of the Shoshone tribe, became the first and only woman to accompany the Lewis and Clark expedition, exploring the West and seeking a route to the Pacific. You’ve heard of Ben Franklin, but how about his sister-in-law, Ann Smith Franklin, who was married to Ben’s brother, James?

After James died in 1837, leaving Ann a widow with five kids, she took over as publisher of the Mercury, a Newport, Rhode Island newspaper, which Ann had helped James to launch. Sophie Blanchard learned her aeronautical skills from her husband, who died of a heart attack beside Sophie while she was piloting a balloon. Ada Lovelace was not only the first female computer programmer, but also the first computer programmer overall. It calculated Bernoulli numbers, thanks to Lovelace’s data input. Apparently, Elizabeth Blackwell was admitted as a prank among the men at the Geneva Medical College in western New York state, but the joke was on them when Dr. Blackwell received her medical degree in 1849.

Born in 1898 Helen Brooke Taussig, was also a scientific pioneer in the movement to ban Thalidomide, a drug for morning sickness. It caused malformations in children’s limbs when their mothers took it during pregnancy. Metallic dentist tools close up in a dentist clinic. Initially denied admission to dental school, Lucy Beamon Hobbs Taylor at first studied privately with a professor but then gained admission in 1865 to the Ohio College of Dental Surgery. There, she earned her Doctorate in Dental Surgery the following year. The man she later married, James Taylor, followed her into the practice of dentistry. Maths formulas written by white chalk on the blackboard background.

In 1886, Winifred Edgerton Merril became the first woman to receive a degree from Columbia University, as well as the first woman to receive a PhD in mathematics. Proving that practice makes perfect, the vote to award her a doctorate was made unanimously by the Board of Trustees on Merril’s second try. Arguably the most famous female scientist of them all, Marie Curie, born Maria Sklodowska in Warsaw in 1867, was a young revolutionary before she began her studies in physics and math at the Sorbonne in Paris. It was there she met her husband, Pierre Curie, a physics professor. A former actress who’d been born Elise Raymonde Deroche in Paris in 1882, Raymonde de Laroche was inspired to take up flying after seeing the Wright Brothers’ flight demonstrations in 1907 in France. Though she wasn’t the first female aviator, de Laroche was the first woman to earn a pilot’s license in 1910.

In 1916, Jeannette Rankin was elected to the House of Representatives as a representative from Montana. At the same time, Rankin also became the first woman ever to be elected to national office in the United States. Wilson’s run as the stand-in Chief Executive began in 1919, when Woodrow suffered a stroke. 1921 when Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Innocence. On August 6, 1926, Gertrude Caroline Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Ederle, who lived to be 98 and died in 2003, was also an Olympic swim champion and five-time world record-holder in five swimming events.

Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins, a sociologist and political reformer from New York, his Secretary of Labor, a job she kept until 1945. Read on for some presidential trivia that isn’t true. Arlene Francis, born Arlene Francis Kazanjian in 1907, always wanted to be a serious actress. Instead, she became a serious radio and television personality and the first woman to host a television game show, Your Big Moment. That was in 1949, and Francis continued that gig until 1952. Grammys, making her the first woman to win two and the first African American to win at all.